Oprah Hunk Entrepreneur Allegedly Assaults Girlfriend with Pillow
"He's single!," Oprah once gushed to her audience over Gurbaksh Chahal, a studly young startup founder who only a year before had sold his company to Yahoo! for $300 million. Now he's facing 41 counts...
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AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Fires Employee for Taking His Picture
Things are a little tense over at AOL, with hundreds of Patch staffers facing layoffs as the hyperlocal news service continues to slide. And it's not just them: during a meeting about the layoffs,...
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Marc Andreessen (Probably) Blasts Don Graham as "Incompetent"
"I was minding my own business last night when I got the note below from a respected investor," disgraced Wall Street analyst Henry Blodget recently wrote on his blog. That investor is almost certainly...
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Listen to AOL's CEO Fire an Employee Before 1,000 Coworkers: "OUT!"
With a thousand nervous staffers and executives on the line, AOL's CEO Tim Armstrong announced a bloody swath of new layoffs via conference call. He also, a sort of Shakespearean...
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Sheryl Sandberg's Selling Spree Continues
What'd you do on Friday? Best-selling motivational author Sheryl Sandberg netted $91 million dollars in Facebook stock sales, a fortissimo note after months of steady selling.Read more...
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Newest Startup Perk: Arcade Machines Delivered Directly to Your Office
Any company can offer a few bean bag chairs plopped around an Xbox—that's just not good enough anymore. The next big thing in closing the great Perk Gap isn't more snacks, but turning your office into...
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Billionaire Unveils Imaginary Space Train
Elon Musk, who co-founded PayPal and is now in the electric car game, doesn't have regular hobbies. No, his latest pet project is called the Hyperloop, and he says it's the future of transit....
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Snapchat First Pitched as a Sorority Girl Toy
From the ongoing legal saga of fraternal business treachery, we receive this relic: a draft of Snapchat's (née Picaboo) first ever press release in July, 2011. Maybe this is how Stanford startup dudes...
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Stop Trying To Let Stupid Computers Pick Our Outfits
TechCrunch has great news for anyone hoping to piggyback on an old company's success: the "Pandora for e-commerce" just raised $750,000 in funding (atop a million a year ago). StyleSeek says it can...
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The First Look at Facebook's Enormous New NYC Office
It'll be quite some time before the social network's Manhattan vanguard moves to its sprawling, 100,000 square foot Frank Gehry-designed space. But even a peek at this model shows that it's going to be...
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AOL's Very Sad, Very Scared Internal Memos
More bleak leaks out of AOL's local news network, Patch: Jim Romenesko got his hands on two internal emails asking staffers to make more sales. Asking is one term, pleading, in a panic, is another. You...
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AOL CEO Apologizes for Public Shame-Firing
It turns out, even Tim Armstrong finds Tim Armstrong obnoxious—the trouble chief of AOL just sent an apology email to his company for firing a subordinate on a conference call.Read more...
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Dave Eggers to Release Book About Evil Google
Have you ever wondered what it'd be like to work for a tech company? A spooky tech company? If so, you will probably like this forthcoming novel.Read more...
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Who Gave This Asshole $6.5 Million to Launch a Bro-Tastic Lady Site?
Something beautiful happened yesterday: an otherwise fractious internet was drawn together in harmony, united in mutual contempt for a new website called Bustle. Bustle is the spawn of asinine media...
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Palantir's CEO Sounds Completely Insane
Palantir, the CIA-backed, Hobbit-inspired, probably-spying-on-you startup worth billions, has one hell of a leader. Forbes profiles Alex Karp in its latest issue, and he is a drug-smoking, sex-loving,...
View ArticleInterns Need to Lean Harder than Anyone
given @Leanin is the "feminist" arm of Facebook, which Sheryl Sandberg recently sold $91 Million of stock in, you'd think they'd pay interns — kate losse (@fake_train) August 14, 2013Read more...
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Revealed: Sheryl Sandberg's Unpaid Intern Disgrace
We've found a copy of an unpaid job listing Lean In Foundation's editor-at-large tried to delete. If Facebook's celeb COO Sheryl Sandberg just made $91 million last week (and God only knows how much...
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Meanwhile, at Twitter HQ, Some Juggling Clowns
The great infantilization of Silicon Valley's employed continues.Read more...
View ArticleAOL's New $400 Million Purchase Might Be a Scam Operation
King Tim the Terrible just shelled out some major cash to give AOL a makeover as a media monster, not your uncle's ancient homepage—but according to a new report by AdWeek, it might have purchased...
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PandoDaily's Threatening Email Meltdown
Former BusinessWeek reporter, TechCrunch columnist, and current tech PR star Sarah Lacy has made a name for herself: her website, PandoDaily, is one of the industry's most loyal allies. But if you do...
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